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Huizenga does Holmes

Elementary, my dear Ganges! Wildly acclaimed, prodigiously talented cartoonist Kevin Huizenga has taken a break from chronicling the vagaries of our daily existence in his series Ganges and (the late, lamented) Or Else to take on the greatest detective in literary history and his arch-nemesis. (No, not Batman and the Joker, but I like the way you think.)

At his blog, Huizenga has posted a two-page comic featuring the first and final face-to-face confrontations between none other than Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty. The strip is part of the Famous Fictional Villains show at St. Louis's Mad Art Gallery, curated by Huizenga's friend, fellow cartoonist, and occasional collaborator Dan Zettwoch. The opening reception for the show -- which features baddies ranging from Macbeth's witches to Alien's facehugger, interpreted by Zettwoch, Huizenga and over a dozen other artists -- takes place tonight from 7pm to 11pm.

Wall-to-wall Ware

How much Corrigan can you stand?

The Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture at the University of Tennessee has a new exhibit up entitled "MultipleXMultiple: A Survey of Contemporary Printmaking." The interesting (and comics-related) thing about this show is they're highlighting the work of Chris Ware by displaying every page from every issue of Acme Novelty Library so far on a wall. One of the student curators, Daniel Maw, has pictures of the installation on his blog, and talks about the idea behind the show over at Flog:

In order to showcase the epic nature of this comic we elected to purchase two copies, cut the bindings off each, collate the pages, and display all [390] pages in a grid on a 23 x 10 foot wall. It is quite impressive to take it all in at once as it demonstrates the tremendous amount of talent and work that went in to the creation of the book.

Straight for the art | Now Showing — reimagined movie posters

"Blow-Up" by Tomer Hanuka and "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" by Nathan Fox

What did art shows do before the Internet? Back then, you had one brief shining moment, or month as the case may have been, to catch a great show at a gallery or museum before its collected works were lost to the ether. Nowadays, however, the tubes can pipe the visual riches to you in perpetuity.

Such is the case with "Now Showing: Exploring the Lost 'Art' of the Film Poster." Curated by Wear It With Pride, the exhibition ran last year at the COSH Gallery in London and Vallery in Barcelona, and featured reinterpretations of classic and cult film posters by comics artists Nathan Fox, Tomer Hanuka, and 40 other illustrators and designers. From The Lost Boys to The Planet of the Apes, A Clockwork Orange to Soylent Green, The Birds to Blade Runner, Dr. No to Rear Window to Tampopo, there's bound to be something to delight any lover of fine film and/or eye-melting art. Click here to see 'em all in a Flickr set.

(Via Jason Adams.)

ComicsLive | A guide to next week's comic-related events

Welcome to ComicsLive, a guide to upcoming signings, conventions and more. This type of information can sometimes get lost in the archives when it's posted a few weeks or months ahead of time, so we'll be consolidating them into one weekly calendar-esque post every Friday and running reminders at the bottom of Kevin's Comics A.M. posts on the day of the event. Hopefully this will ensure the information is easier to find when you need it.

If you'd like to submit an event for inclusion, please email them directly to me. Please include the venue, city and state, start time, event details and any related websites where we can send folks for more information. Virtual events, like online creator chats, are also welcome.

Today, June 26

Toronto | Pulp Fiction, an art exhibit featuring the works of Marc Bell, Amy Lockhart, Peter Thompson, Seth Scriver and many more Canadian cartoonists, opens at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art. The exhibit kicks off with an opening party tonight at 7 p.m. and runs through Aug. 23. More details can be found here.

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Straight for the art | Full of Pryde art exhibit

Full of Pryde promo poster

Earlier this month I mentioned Full of Pryde, an art exhibit featuring images of X-Man Kitty Pryde that benefits the hemophilia research department at Oregon Health and Science University.

The good folks at Floating World Comics in Portland are hosting the exhibit, and not only have they released the art for the promo poster (by Barnaby Ward, above) but they've also set up a dedicated blog where you can view the art. For more details on the event, which kicks off May 7, check out this post on the Floating World Comics site.

Full of Pryde exhibit to benefit hemophilia research

Kitty Pryde by Joëlle Jones

Joëlle Jones (whose art is pictured above), Tom Neely, Brandon Graham, Bryan Lee O'Malley, Ana Galvañ, Chuck BB, Becky Cloonan, Jon Sperry and more are contributing artwork to Full of Pryde, an art exhibit that benefits the hemophilia research department at Oregon Health and Science University. Floating World Comics in Portland is hosting the exhibit starting May 7, which will feature images of the popular X-Man Kitty Pryde.